Bedstead



(No Model.) J. J. DUGAN.

BEDSTBAD.

No. 500,867. J Patented July 4, 1893.

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UNITED VSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. DUGAN, OF SALEM, OREGON.

BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION frming parl; Of Letters Patent N0. 500,867, Tilly 4, 1893.

Application filed April 5, 1893. Serial 'H0- 489,184. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. DUGAN, of Salem, in the county of Marion and State of Ore-4 `bedsteads and especially in what are-known as iron bedsteads.

The object of my invention is to produce a very cheap and strong metallic bedstead which may be used fol-any usual purpose, but which is especially adapted for use in prisons, insane asylums and other 'places of continement, as it is made of such few partsand so strongly put together, that there are no legs or other pieces which can be wrenched from the bedstead and used as weapons.

A further object of my invention is to construct the obedstead so that it has very few joints and therefore has no place in which bed bugs and other vermin may find lodgmcnt.

To these` ends my invention consists in certain features of construction and combina# tions of parts,as will be hereinafter described and claimed. Y

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specication, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view rof the bed stead embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a broken detail sectional view of one of the jointsbetween the headboard and one of the sideboards. Fig. 3 is a broken detail View, partly in section, showing the manner in which the couplings are attached to the head and foot Vposts andshowing also the angle iron to support a mattress. Fig. 4 isa broken detail sectional plan of one of the corner joints of the bedstead; and Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view showing how a woven wire mattress is bound or fastened to the bedstead.

The bedstead is provided witha headboard and footboard 10 and 11, each being of agenerally inverted U-shape, and the side menibers of the head and footboards form the posts ofthe bed. 'l`heheadboard'and footboard are of similar construction, each being formed of a pipe bent to the desired shape. Theopposite posts of both-the footboard and headboard are connected by cross braces 12 which are li ngs are arranged at the necessary height andl are held in place by bolts 15 which project through the couplings and through the bed` posts. The side bars 16 of the bedstead. are simply pipes which are screwed into the horizontally-extending nipplesM of the couplings 13, and which are also fastened in place by bolts, as hereinafter described.

At the head and foot of the bed aretransverse angle irons 17 which are adapted to su pport a mattress and which are perforated on top, as shown at 18, so that the mattress may be firmly fastened'to them. Each angleiron 17 is on the same horizontal plane as the side nicely against the couplings and has also end straps 20 which are bent around the outside of the couplings 13, so as 'to extend parallel with the nipples 14 to which they are secured bybolts 21 provided with nuts 22, and extending through the straps in the nipples, and

the said bars 16 thus bind all three parts together and make a very strong joint.

A Woven wire or similar mattress is fasbars 16 and is recessed at the ends so as to fit tened to the bedstead asshown in Fig. 5. The

Vare doubled under straps or bars 24, which are made to lie llat on the tops of the angleirons and 4which are fastened thereto by bolts 25 which extend through the bars 21.1. and the holes 18 inthe angle irons.. The mattresses are thus firmly clamped in place. 1

It will be seen that this construction makes a bedstead of very .few pieces and the bedstead is absolutely rigid, so that it cannot be broken by any manual means, audit is theres fore especially 'adapted for the uses specified. I

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- IOC) 1. As an improved article of manufacture, an all metallic bedstead, comprising end and footboards, each formed of asingle bent pipe, T-conplings secured to the posts of the bed, sideboards connecting the couplings of the head and foot posts, and angle irons connecting the head posts and also the foot posts, the angle irons terminating in end straps which are boltedto the couplings, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, an all metallic bedstead, comprising head and footboards, each formed of a pipe bent to an approximate U-shape, Tlconplings secured to the posts of the bedstead, side bars connectl5 ing the couplings of the head and footboard, the side bars being screwed into the said couplings, angle irons extending across the head and footboard, each angle iron having end straps extending around the outer sides of the couplings, and fastening bolts extending through the straps, the couplings and the side bars, substantially as described.

JOHN J. DUGAN.

Witnesses:

R. P. BoIsE, Jr., WM. F. DUGAN. 

